I thought we were “sustaining” the club under SS? If we can’t afford a stadium redevelopment, don’t do it. We don’t need a new east stand. We can’t sell our 3 stands we have now, until Preston come to town. Which is ironic, that everyone moans about £30 ticket prices but buys one for Preston.
If redeveloping the East stand means we’re going to get a load of day tripper supporters, who aren’t bothered about the team then for me it can go back to the old Gene Kelly.
This is where ambition comes in and also not judging our current situation right now as the maximum.
BTW we do sell out for the big games like nobbers, we will eventually progress in cups and draw big sides etc.
Think about it, we are currently under a cost of living crisis, but not forever. Last season was covid affected still.
We haven't even begun to market and sell the club, offer deals, cheap prices etc.
We've had many years of boycott and losing fans, before that decades of shit and no ambition.
Last season we had nearly 12k home fans for the nobbers game at high prices and had to stop selling.
The game wasn't on sale that long, not compared to what the nobbers do anyway.
There's tons of potential for growth, its about building for the future.
Plus it has to be replaced anyway.
But if we sell the 3 sides, which is 10.5k, hospitality holds about 750 I think.
We could have some pool fans in the east and away fans get 3k+ maybe.
Certainly for big games should we want to you can then give some away fans more and have 14-15k for pool fans, or however you want to split it.
Obviously it won't always be filled up, it's about being able to capitalise on the big occasions.
Even with the nearly 12k pool fans we had vs pne last time, you could give away fans 4-5k and be beyond our current capacity limit when segregation is accounted for.
Thats without any future growth, deals etc.
This stand is being built and the club is looking years into the future too.
Even now in a cost of living, we'd be only a cheap price and a good run away from far bigger crowds.